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behallow

behallow verb: to make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely.

Verb

behallow (third-person singular simple present behallows, present participle behallowing, simple past and past participle behallowed)

  1. (transitive) To make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely.
    • [...] bishops and servants of God — the "senatores natu majores," the elders and chiefs of the people — caused his eldest son, Egfurth, to be behallowed (which is the Saxon term used for the consecration of a bishop) as king of Mercia.1835, William Henry C. Grey, The Lords and the People
    • Kings are "behallowed" as well as bishops; […]1842 April, “The Anglo-Saxon Confessions”, in The Church of England Quarterly Review, volume 11, article 4, page 343

Forms of behallow

third-person singular presentbehallows
present participlebehallowing
past participlebehallowed
pastbehallowed

Origin of behallow

From be- + hallow.

Questions about behallow

What does behallow mean?
Behallow means to make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely.
What part of speech is behallow?
Behallow is a verb.
What is the past tense of behallow?
The past tense of behallow is behallowed.

Words near behallow in the dictionary

  1. Behaite
  2. behalf
  3. behalfe
  4. behalfism
  5. behalfs
  6. behallow
  7. behaloed
  8. behalves
  9. Behan
  10. behanchod
  11. behanchods

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